It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.

— Jules Verne

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

— Jules Verne

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

— Jules Verne

I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously

— Jules Verne

Liberty is worth paying for.

— Jules Verne

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

— Jules Verne

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

— Jules Verne

Phineas Fog, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club

— Jules Verne

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

— Jules Verne

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

— Jules Verne